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"content": " We will now dispose of Order No.12 because it is time-bound. Proceed, Chairperson of the Budget and Appropriations Committee."
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"content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move that the Division of Revenue Bill (National Assembly Bill No.14 of 2024) be now read a Second Time."
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"content": "I will take very few minutes to move this Bill. I want to thank the Members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee for sitting long hours to come up with this Bill. Before I delve into the Bill, this is part of what we do as the Budget and Appropriations Committee. We also check on the projects that we appropriate money. I bring greetings from the Tom Mboya University where I was honoured to give a public lecture this afternoon, as I also supervised the ongoing work in that institution through the money appropriated by Parliament."
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"content": "[The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) left the Chair]"
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"content": "[The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Peter Kaluma) took the Chair]"
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"content": "The Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) that we recently passed suggested that we set aside Ksh391 billion as the shareable revenue for the Financial Year (FY) 2024/2025. That proposal was adopted by the House. It was based on several parameters, the major one being that we need to reach a threshold of 15 per cent of the last audited financial report, especially on the revenue side."
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"content": "As Members are aware, the last audited financial report is for FY 2020/2021. We were dealing with a revenue of around Ksh1.57 trillion. If we calculate it in terms of percentage, we are appropriating 25.9 per cent of the last audited revenue. Therefore, this goes to show that this House, and the Executive led by His Excellency President (Dr) William Samoei Ruto, support devolution and that is why we keep increasing the shareable revenue that goes to efficiently discharging services in our counties."
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"content": "We also got a chance to meet our governors in the process of consideration of the BPS. They raised several legitimate concerns, one of which was that they are currently undertaking many functions alongside the national Government. Even as we give them conditional grants, they also need to raise money to match those conditional grants, especially with regard to the County Aggregation and Industrial Parks (CAIP) where they need to expend money."
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"content": "There is a budget for the health sector in our counties, which county governments will also need to support, especially when it comes to the hiring of people who will be assisting in terms of primary healthcare in our villages. Part of it is paid by the national Government while another part is paid by the county governments. Our county governments are being “squeezed” over time in regard to the amount of money available for them to allocate towards the development budget. I beseech this House that going forward, we may need to support our counties by allocating additional resources."
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"content": "As the Budget and Appropriations Committee, we added Ksh4 billion to a conditional grant to buy equipment for our Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 health facilities to improve their infrastructure. As the House is aware, the National Treasury suggested that our counties get some money from the Roads Maintenance Levy Fund (RMLF), which this House declined. In anticipation of that, and in support of devolution, we added Ksh4 billion that will go into the health sector to improve infrastructure and equipment in our primary healthcare facilities."
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